Super Bowl Champion Mike Evans and his wife spend a lot of time giving back to the Tampa Bay community though the Mike Evans Foundation.

Evans started the Foundation in 2017, providing scholarships for kids to go to college.

We spoke to the Executive Director of the Mike Evans Family Foundation, Courtney Foss, who says Evans wouldn't have been able to attend Texas A&M without a scholarship himself.

The Mike Evans Family Foundation selected 13 recipients out of more than 100 applications.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans and his wife, Ashli Evans, awarded $65,000 in scholarships to students in Tampa, Fla., Galveston, Texas, and other cities.

As part of the Mike Evans Family Foundation scholarship program, the foundation selected 13 recipients out of more than 100 applicants "whose resilience and personal achievements stood out among the rest."

After a year off from hosting a free summer football camp because of the coronavirus pandemic, Tampa Bay wide receiver superstar and Ball High alumnus Mike Evans returned to Galveston to host his annual football camp June 26.

After everyone had to wait two years for Evans to return to his hometown, it made his presence that much sweeter. Anyone who knows anything about Evans’ story knows how much he deeply cares for the community that raised him.

“This city made me who I am, and I’ll never forget it,” Evans told Daily News Sports Editor James LaCombe. “I’ll always help as long as I’m here.”

GALVESTON

You can take the B.O.I. out of the island, but you can’t take the island out of the B.O.I.

Fresh off February’s Super Bowl LV victory, a single-season career high of 13 touchdown receptions and becoming the first player in NFL history compile more than 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first seven seasons, Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver and Ball High School alumnus Mike Evans was back at his roots in Galveston on a sweltering Saturday morning at Spoor Field to lead his annual free football camp for local children.

“This city made me who I am, and I’ll never forget it,” Evans said. “I’ll always help as long as I’m here.”

The star wide receiver and his foundation hosted their annual bowling classic and golf tournament back to back following the end of mandatory mini-camp this week.

The record-setting receiver was honored Friday during a small parade in Galveston.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Mike Evans’ favorite superhero is Batman. If he could have any superpower, he would like to be able to fly. He prefers seafood over steak; admitting shrimp, crab legs, and lobster tails are his weaknesses.

Honestly, I did not think Mike Evans had any weaknesses but, thanks to Landen Sapien, I will always remember his likely fondness for shrimp scampi.

“Mike was so approachable and down to earth,” said Landen’s mother, Amy. “And I think one of his children is Landen’s age so he was really able to talk to him on his level.”

Yes, Mike Evans, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers star wide receiver, hopped on a Zoom meeting with Landen Sapien, an 8-year-old boy who is battling cancer.

“Landen is hard to impress,” admitted Amy. “So to see him slightly starstruck was a neat experience.”

Landen was diagnosed with T-cell leukemia in June of 2019.

Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans and his wife, Ashli, celebrated the season with the Mike Evans Family Foundation’s Annual Catch for Christmas events this week.

NFL star and former Aggie standout Mike Evans ’15 establishes scholarships at Texas A&M University to support students from his hometown.

Summer and golf just go together in Florida. On Friday, they came together for a good cause as Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans hosted his Celebrity Golf Outing where his Mike Evans Family Foundation donated $25,000 to the University of South Florida in order to help start a scholarship fund for local students in need of financial assistance. They presented the check before everyone teed off and in turn, Evans' Foundation received a $10,000 matching grant from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation Social Justice Fund, also presented on Friday morning.

The Bucs' Pro Bowl receiver hopes to help youth and families both in Tampa and his hometown of Galveston, Texas.